Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are signs that the U.S. is increasingly recognizing this, particularly among the no-longer-silent younger generation. Their education has ceased to be a kind of finishing school for "life adjustment," and they seem tough-minded, earnest and determined, without being dull...
Boston will probably take the series, three to one, from the Gnats, but even if the Red Sox lose, it won't detract from the merriment. For these two clubs are really fun teams. Things never get dull in Fenway Park. A few errors, wild pitches, a fight in the centerfield bleachers, or any contact with that amazing creature -- the Red Sox fan -- is sure to make the ball game a most memorable occasion...
...concern with them, certainly, but find other ways of talking about them. The present Current offers a valuable appraisal of the Catholic dilemma at Harvard. But the magazine, if it does not develop other styles of answering its questions, stands in danger of becoming repetitive, too self-conscious, and dull...
Master Wylie and Mrs. Wylie wandered down from Quincy House "looking for some excitement," but found the whole thing pretty tame. So did the Dunster House tutor who lingered for a few minutes and then turned to leave, remarking that "this seems to be rather dull...
...capability. Mounted on the roof are four propellers, which may not be World War II Air Force surplus, yet reproduce the effects of a B-17 warming up in the attic. They impart to the lower floors a pulse beat of a steady thirty-five, which quickens to a dull tremor throughout the upper stories...